Smokie: Exiles On The Reeperbahn
Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 16 September 1978
LAST NIGHT, IN Hamburg, Smokie played to 6,000 people and tonight they'll repeat the process in the fishing port of Kiel. It brings to an end this 18-date German tour, an astonishing sold-out schedule that has attracted over 100,000 fans.
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